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my wife got me the semicolon poster for my birthday. awesome.

link. 1200 MSP, august 11th. gotta love the summer of arcade. the gameplay looks really fun, combining lots of different gameplay elements. everyone's going to say that it's a clone of TF2, but there's a much different game under the hood. i'd cross TF2 and split second: velocity, and add in a little bit of Demigod-style RPG elements. apparently, it's not mutiplayer only, too. there's two modes, a 6v6 competitive mode, and a 1-5 player vs. computer mode. since i rarely play competitive shooters anymore, this second thing is what sounds most interesting to me. what do you all think? anyone interested?

i'm interested in uncharted 2 (PSduh) and brutal legend (x360). say, 30$ for both?

hot damn, how have i missed that guy's stuff?

there's little out there that's specifically for jazz, sounds good, and is cheap or free when you get away from bass, keyboards, and drums. good jazz horns are hard to find. edirol orchestral includes all of the major strings, winds, brass, and percussion. as for rock and/or fusion, recorded stuff is always better than sampled. Shreddage is primarily a rhythm guitar thing, and doesn't have a lot of the flexibility you'll want with lead guitarist. so that's kind of up to you. i still recommend guitar rig, though, since it's easily the most versatile amp modeler and effecter plugin i've ever seen.

electronic guitar? i think you mean electric guitar. combine Impact Soundworks (zircon and bustatunez) Shreddage with Guitar Rig 4, and you've got instant metulz. as for orchestral and brass (i'm assuming you mean strings and brass, since 'orchestral' refers to anything in an orchestra), there's a ton of different levels of quality based on what you want to pay. edirol might be good enough if you're on a limited budget.

i just happened to look when you posted =)

unless you're recording, you don't need a sound card. fo realz. if you are recording, most of the decent mid-range ones are firewire or USB2, so you don't need to worry about adding on. there are a myriad of cheap 2-input sound cards for usb, usually around 100$ or so. i used the m-audio mobilepre for years, and it worked fine. just used onboard sound beyond that. i didn't get a real audio interface (focusrite saffire pro 40) until about three months ago...after doing music for six years. if you're a student, you can get w7 professional 32-bit for 30$ (USD) at win741.com. it's the 'upgrade' version, but it'll install a full version right off the disc, nothing's needed. as for the graphics card, i probably wouldn't go with the stock card. use this list to determine what's worth it for your needs. i'm an nvidia guy (better drivers, more games optimized for them), so i'd go with the newly released gtx 460. it's only 55 pounds more. edit: don't get kaspersky. legitimate users of windows can get Microsoft Security Essentials, a lightweight and excellent anti-virus suite. by far the best option for free. maximum pc or ars technica (can't remember which) did an extensive test of AV programs a while ago, and MSE blew away every other option in the free category, and was better than most of the paid alternatives.

can't you turn on a Director-style AI?

musique concrete, as originally described by pierre schaeffer, was originally supposed to describe aural ideas expressed through the manipulation of tapes. with the Nazis' invention of the magnetic tape recorder during the war, and the subsequent marketing of the technology in the few years following, schaeffer's ideas began playing sometime near 1948 on an egyptian radio station, if i remember correctly. the nature of musique concrete is that while it was originally based on found instrumentation, the invention and subsequent exploration of synthesizers allowed for an incredible amount of sounds to play with. early composers attempted to utilize popular compositional techniques - particularly serialism - to allow for some form to their creations, but for the most part it really was just playing around with sound - similar to early composers playing with ideas outside the traditional bounds of tonality and the church modes. if you want an example, there's a myriad of stuff out there that really fits this genre, but i'd recommend mario davidovsky's pulizter-winning synchronisms no. 6, for piano and tape. it's hard to listen to unless you've got a good explanation for what's going on, but it perfectly demonstrates these concepts. if you want something more 'found', schaeffer's early works would suffice, i'd think. since this youtube example's got a lot of pitch-shifting and all that, i'd say it qualifies as musique concrete. the use of various effects, like tape delay, stuttering, and timeshifting, kind of give that away. if it's just banging on doors and stuff, though, it's not really musique concrete. there has to be that manipulation of timbre and time to really give it that name. i did a lecture recital on the music of jacob ter veldhuis, and he was profoundly influenced by traditional musique concrete, particularly in his works Billie and Pitch Black (both of which are highly listenable, and really cool works for saxophone/sax quartet and tape). i also did a term paper on synchronisms no. 6 =) did that help?

gates of hell is electronic. in general, the use of non-traditional instruments to make sound is known as percussion. just kidding, doug! no, really, it's called found instrumentation. the vast majority are percussive instruments, since pretty much anything that makes regular pitches has been classified (like, there's five or six kinds of pitched instruments that consist solely of glasses with various amounts of different liquids in them).

fantastic link, there, BS.

i was laughing at that too for a while.

thanks, man.

usb is only faster if you don't have to back it up in the first place. with big files, i often just let it download overnight. since it puts it wherever (and downloads are stored sequencially), it's more annoying to have to defrag after lots of big files get transferred over usb for me than to just dl it again. it also depends on your download speed =) didn't realize it was a one-time thing.

you've already learned much, man. what an awesome newbie, for realz.

i don't get it, OP. what's so cool about it?

i know blue, red, and a bit of yellow. don't knock it =)

sorry for trying to help, kid. i generally don't store downloaded sample packs - i just re-download them on new machines instead of wasting time transferring them via slow interfaces like USB. normally, corrupted file errors like this stem from improper or incomplete downloads or transfers.

actually, by disabling UAC, you're just leaving your system more open to infections. try running the installer in administrative mode.

agility? pokefail!

you likely either have an incomplete download or downloaded the wrong version of EWQL.

i just saw the final trailer for this game. holy SHIT.

let's say men's large.

fair enough.